Brooklyn
(Dir. John Crowley) (2015) This film looks lovely. 1950s Ireland and Brooklyn were never more sumptuous. Here we have a story by the massively respected Colm Tóibín and Nick Hornby, with decent actors and competent direction. It is a sad and moving account of an Irish lass who is sponsored by her parish to work in New York, where she finds love and herself torn between two countries. Now for the bad news – it is possibly the most boring film in recent memory. The Varnished Culture, and two highly cultured friends, Grant and Melanie, fell asleep at various times during the…
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Torrie Osborn congratulated by Club President, Nick Chigwidden
Last evening at the Annual General Meeting of the Glenelg Football Club, the Board’s message rang out loud and clear: the Club has a debt and a revenue problem (like the country as a whole). It also has a problem with winning football games: the 1985 and 1986 glories are a long time ago and far, far away. But these challenges we welcome and the Board is being up-front, honest and appears determined to take them on. Furthermore, it is easy to forget how chaotic the start of the 2015 season was for the Tigers: a new coach not given…
Continue Reading →Our “Great Classics: Carter & Wagner” Review in ASO eNotes
It takes something special to get folks in Adelaide to stand
In their latest electronic newspaper, our friends at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra linked to our review of a recent function held by our friends the Richard Wagner Society of SA and a concert under the auspices of the ASO’s new Principal Conductor Nicholas Carter. Scroll down!
Continue Reading →10 Things We Hate Doing
Photo by Alex Proimos
Camping & Caravan a-going Hanging up the washing Voting, when you know you’re better than the candidates. Talking to folks who don’t want to talk. Talking to folks who don’t want to listen. Watching Glenelg lose. Pretending to not care when Glenelg loses. Living within a house under renovation. Public speaking. Getting on an overcrowded tram, particularly when drunk.
Continue Reading →Molly (Channel 7 Miniseries)
Photo by Jeanie McKinder
(Channel 7 Mini-Series) Ian “Molly” Meldrum named his house “Luxor” and hung out with cross-dressers. But Molly was also a brawler and a football fan. While having a genius for television, he could barely string two words together. These contradictions raise questions about this quixotic man, but there was no question for those of us who grew up in the Countdown days. Watching Countdown for 25 minutes on the ABC was what you did on Friday, and then Sunday evenings. Young people today won’t believe it if you tell them that until Countdown, the only tv music shows for the young were occasional all night “Rockathons”* which my…
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